HUGON, EDOUARD. – Dominican philosopher and theologian, born at Lafarre (Haute Loire) on 25 August 1867, died in Rome on 7 February 1929. In 1885 he was at Rijckholt (Holland), where he made his solemn profession on 13 January 1890; he taught philosophy and theology at Rosary-Hill (New York), Poitiers, Angers, and Rijckholt. In 1909 he was called to Rome to found, together with Fathers Szabó, Pègues, and Garrigou-Lagrange, the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, and for 20 years he remained there as professor and consultor for the Eastern Church, examiner of the clergy, and member of the Roman Academy of St Thomas.
H. was a complete theologian, both in his possession of the various sacred sciences and in the balance between mind and heart: alongside the scholastic exposition of the theses, the corollarium pietatis. His philosophical-theological teaching was distinguished by ease, clarity, and certainty of doctrine, which was strictly Thomistic.
Among his numerous publications, the two textbooks of philosophy and theology should be remembered, which served as guides for so many young ecclesiastics: Cursus philosophiae thomisticae ad theologium doctoris Ang. propaedeuticus (3rd ed., 6 vols., Paris 1946) and Tractatus dogmatici (revised ed., 3 vols., there 1931–35). Among the monographs intended for popularization: Le Mystère de la Redemption (9th ed., there 1946); La Ste Eucharistie (7th ed., there 1935); Les vingt-quatre thèses thomistes (8th ed., there 1938). In addition, a series of articles in the journals Angelicum, Vie spirituelle, and Revue thomiste.